Re: iff?

[Rob Browning]

Jim Blandy <address@hidden> writes:

> In Emacs, the first line of any docstring is supposed to be a
> self-contained summary of the function's behavior.  The `apropos'
> commands take advantage of this, and show you the first line of each
> matching command/function/variable's docstring.  The appeal of `iff'
> is that it is somewhat briefer, which sometimes allowed me to fit a
> better description into that first line.

And that may be a property worth trying to preserve.  What about
something like

  (foo x) returns true if x is foo-like, #f otherwise.

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Rob Browning <address@hidden> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930